[B-Greek] looking for a book
Mike Sangrey
MSangrey at BlueFeltHat.org
Thu Mar 31 11:43:26 EST 2005
On Thu, 2005-03-31 at 16:00 +0000, kgraham0938 at comcast.net wrote:
> My pastor asked me if I had heard of a book that takes Greek NT words
> and tells how they were used in everyday language on the streets.
In a certain sense, what your pastor is looking for is simply Koine
Greek. Since, 'koine', by definition, is vernacular. In this case, you
(and we) really already have such creatures. BDAG, Louw & Nida, Moulton
and Milligan, Brown's, and others, do this for us.
However, the gotcha, if I'm not reading into your question, is that even
these books take 1st Century Greek vernacular and, with a number of
words key to theological discussions, give them a theological spin. For
example, CARIS as used on the street would not have had its rich
theological implications read back into it. People in the KMarticus
parking lot would not have done that. And we do it far too easily.
Having a lexicon that does ONLY that would be valuable. Though, again,
a lexicon like Louw & Nida gets very close. Kittel, on the other hand,
is at the other extreme.
--
Mike Sangrey
msangrey AT BlueFeltHat.org
Landisburg, Pa.
"The first one last wins."
"A net of highly cohesive details reveals the truth."
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